FIRST ANNUAL
ART ROUTE OAKLAND!
This is the last weekend of Art Route Oakland!
This
event is a free, art filled activity for all ages held during Oakland
Art Month. Follow the official Art Route Map and explore galleries
and art venues throughout Oakland. Collect
stamps along your way and enter to win fabulous prizes from $250 to
$1,500 good toward original artwork, a hotel get-away, fine dining and
more!
HOW TO PLAY:
Pick up your official Art Route Oakland Map at any of more than 30 participating venues starting
Friday May 3rd. Bring your map with you as you visit venues around the
city, receiving a stamp for each venue along your route. Continue to
get your map stamped and submit it to a participating Art Route Oakland venue by 5pm on Saturday, May 11th.
Visit Gray Loft Gallery and others in our area these dates:
Second Friday
May 10th, 6-9pm
Last day to play! Saturday Stroll
May 11th, noon-5pm!
Please check the Art Route Oakland website for participating galleries and schedules.
Click here for prize details.
Click here for full contest rules. We hope you come out to visit the awesome galleries
we have in Oakland, play ARO, and win!
Celebrate Oakland Art Month! Celebrate ART!
Paintings by Simone Simon, sculpture by Peter Dreyfuss
Join us for the 2nd Friday Jingletown Reception for
Abstractions - new work by five artists
Simone Simon, Peter Dreyfuss, Jennifer LaPierre,
Irene Imfeld and Andrea Wedell
2nd Friday Jingletown Reception, May 10, 6 – 9 pm
Closing reception: Saturday, May 18, 4:00 – 6:30 pm
Our current exhibit is Abstractions - on
view only until May 18th - is an exhibit of new work by five Bay Area
artists which includes painting, photography and sculpture.
May is Oakland Art Month!
We hope you will come by and help us support local artists!
In the news!
Read DeWitt Cheng's East Bay Express Staff Pick review of the show here.
Read a great article in BARTABLE about Jingletown here.
Click here to read Mary Corbin's article about the Oakland Art Scene and gentrification.
And last, check out #25 in Best 25 Things to do in Oakland in VacationIdea.com!
Simone Simon
The paintings become arenas where light and gesture are gathered and
stored. As the poured paint drives across the canvas, the currents
imprint some places, and wash others away. Accidental opticals occur,
revealing surprises. The ephemeral becomes an informant. Light delivers
information, and the luminosity brings attention to other dimensional
aspects, making the unseen, seen. Simon studied painting at the San
Francisco Art Institute, where she worked under her mentor, Hassel
Smith. She completed her BFA and MFA at SFAI.
Peter Dreyfuss
Working primarily with steel, Dreyfuss creates sculpture inspired by
echoes of Bauhaus, cubism, and abstract expressionism. He has been a
steel sculptor for 18 years, primarily self-taught. His art, both in
steel and paint, is abstract and non-representational. Beginning with a
concept, he allows the materials and processes to lead him, with
gestural and hand-drawn shapes emerging to produce a balance between
intention and imagination.
Jennifer LaPierre
Her art is continually evolving and created without narrative but a
response to the process, finding a grace in the fluid nature of these
recent works. Deconstructing the traditional figure, transitional and
contemporary form, she is enamored with the boundaries of cohesion and
tension. Rooted in a graphic design background with a love of
typography and calligraphy, expression of line influences her.
Receiving an atmospheric and intrinsic reaction, these pieces are
reflective of our land healing from our recent fires with regrowth and a
new compassion and memory. This body of work celebrates resilience.
Irene Imfeld
By abstracting depictions of nature, Imfeld allows her images freedom
of reference and interpretation without dwelling on what is shown and
where it is. Composed in camera and later adjusted in Photoshop, her
images retain much of their original natural form. Her process causes a
reduction of recognition but not of complexity. By altering the tonal
values and sometimes combining multiple exposures, the subject is shown
in a way that is true but different from what we usually observe.
Andrea Wedell
Wedell seeks out rich experience above all other life pursuits; the
impulse to uncover internalized moments, and to revisit them, stimulates
her impulse to paint. By juxtaposing layer after layer of a rich color
and allowing it to shift as the light and mood changes enhances the
theatricality of her work. She thin layers, opaque ones, scribbled
pencil lines, bold strokes, soft ones, and value changes, often
destroying the work, then starting over. she draws on a variety of
painting techniques including brushed gestures, cold wax applied with
brayers, and paint spread with her hands, building on a changing sense
of harmony, evolving her visual vocabulary, all in search of a deeper
meaning that will connect her to something larger.
ABOUT GRAY LOFT GALLERY
Gray
Loft Gallery - voted "Best Art Gallery" two years in a row - 2016
& 2017 - in the Oakland Magazine Readers' Choice Award - has
promoted the rich art culture of Jingletown and the greater Bay Area for
7 years. The gallery has been referred to as a hidden gem in
Jingletown, and noted by Kenneth Baker, former SF Chronicle Art Critic,
in his Visual Arts Don’t Miss Column as “…A space gaining prominence in
the Bay Area…” The mission of the gallery is to provide exhibition
opportunities for artists in a setting that is an alternative to the
traditional gallery model. We hope to inspire, engage and celebrate
artists in our community and beyond. We acknowledge the achievements of
emerging, mid-career and established artists – with an emphasis on
those who live and work in the Bay Area – in a non-traditional art
space. A number of artists began their art career at Gray Loft Gallery.
“I have always enjoyed this gallery, superb atmosphere and lighting.
The polished and worn hardwood floors creek slightly in places as you
climb to the third floor, providing a granular and unique, organic
aesthetic. This is a do-not-miss venue in the East Bay.” – Facebook
Review
GRAY LOFT GALLERY
is a proud member of the Oakland Art Murmur, Jingletown Arts and
Business Association, Oakland Grown and the San Francisco Art Dealers
Association
Hours: closed until February 16th
(However, if you are interested in work that we have in our collection, please email us to set up a time to stop by. Please see website for available works.) 2889 Ford Street, third floor, Oakland CA 94601
DIRECTIONS Thank you to our supporters!
Our mailing address is: Gray Loft Gallery
2889 Ford Street, third floor
Oakland, CA 94601
